April 10, 2012: Join ANA’s Nursing Quality Network for an informative webinar to learn how falls lead to injury and increased length of stay, thereby making falls prevention a top priority for hospitals today. In order to ensure patient safety, nurses need practical useful resources to further improve quality carehospitals maintain successful falls reduction programs and improve nursing quality and patient care.

Learning Voyages are structured, collaborative learning
activities that occur over time, incorporating participants’ experiences into
the learning activities.

Here’s How it
Works

Hospitals who sign up for a Learning Voyage identify 4-10
staff to participate as a team. These
could be established quality focused teams or a group of participants brought
together just for the course, depending on the topic and the needs of the
hospital.

An initial online meeting presents the topic, sets
expectations, and gets commitment and engagement. Participants get comfortable using the online
community; their first task is to create
goals and then post them for sharing with others on the journey.

Teams take part in multiple online events, normally
occurring every two weeks. These might
be webinars, online meetings, online chats or teleconference calls.

Interactions within and across teams, are encouraged and
supported--hard questions asked, methods examined and new ideas born.
Faculty post questions and assign short
tasks.

Duration

Learning Voyages typically continue over three to six
months. The journey culminates in the
delivery of a summary of insights and recommendations—in the form of a webinar,
paper, teleconference, poster, or other format--presented by participants to
the full Nursing Quality Network . These
results are trackable using NDNQI data and other metrics.

Not only do participants bring back the benefit of this rich
collaboration to their facilities, they make a solid contribution to the body
of knowledge that enhances professional nursing as a whole.